‘Battered’ Cork must earn a fanbase, not expect it

The current reality of Cork football is that they take the wins as and when they come. 

Questions must, and are, asked, of course, how they have come to this pass, but if the day one target was to occupy one of the shiny new dressing rooms at their own €80m Páirc Uí Chaoimh on July 2, they have achieved that much.

Of course, Cork football’s ambition should be somewhat north of that. In a widescreen context, they embarrassed themselves in front of their own people and a national television audience with one point in a diabolical first-half on Saturday, played — if that’s the right term — with use of a wind and Tipperary without their best player for half of it.